Dark Skies (2013)

Dark Skies Synopsis

From the producer of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family. Written and Directed by Scott Stewart (Priest, Legion)

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If one watches the Dark Skies trailer for the first time, they might be inclined to think Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs somehow hooked up and had a film baby. The previews have done a decent job of laying down a spooky atmosphere, but instead of keeping the frights on tight lockdown, they throw them at viewers, hoping to get them in theaters to see a handful of other jump scares...

Writer/director Scott Charles Stewart has made a movie about the biblical apocalypse, a movie where priests battle against vampires, and now he's heading into the sci-fi genre with the alien thriller Dark Skies.

Written and directed by Scott Charles Stewart, Dark Skies centers on the Barretts, a family who is normal in every possible way…until they're not. Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton star as a Lacey and Daniel Barrett, who are forced to confront a mysterious and dangerous force that marks their son, terrorizes their house, and makes them both lose control.

Dark Skies is an upcoming supernatural thriller written and directed by Scott Stewart, whose feature credits include Priest and Legion, and produced by Blumhouse, the company famous for making widely released but cheap and high-quality horror films like the Paranormal Activities, Insidious and this summer's Sinister.